Category: GitOps & Automation
Declarative infrastructure, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and automated server lifecycle.
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Setting Up Git on Modern Linux (SSH Signing, Ed25519 & Best Practices)
A standard, clean Git configuration ensures cryptographic commit integrity, consistent line endings across platforms, and streamlined branching workflows. 1. Global Identity & Default Branch Modern Git uses main as the…
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The Complete GitOps Deployment Lifecycle: Forgejo, Webhooks, Komodo & Docker Compose
Managing production servers and self-hosted homelabs by manually SSHing into hosts, running ad-hoc docker run commands, and tweaking live configuration files leads directly to configuration drift, undocumented states, and catastrophic…
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Enterprise Secrets Management: Docker Native File Secrets and GitOps Security Hygiene
Hardcoding database passwords, API tokens, and private keys into Git repositories or plain environment variables in docker-compose.yaml is a critical security vulnerability. This guide explains how to implement Docker Native…
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Declarative Server Administration: Why We Avoid Web GUIs in Favor of GitOps, Tmux & Pure CLI
For decades, server administration tutorials frequently recommended web-based control panels—from monolithic tools like Webmin to container management dashboards and browser-based management dashboards. In modern homelab and production engineering, these tools…